ASunday morning talk show is atelevision program with anews/talk/public affairs–hybrid format that is broadcast on Sunday mornings. This type of program originated in theUnited States, and has since been used in other countries.

(*) - time listed is the time scheduled by the network, local affiliates may delay the show to later slots to accommodate local news or other programming

(**) - considered the traditional "big five" Sunday shows

Other English language examples includeNBC's syndicatedThe Chris Matthews Show,Bloomberg Television'sPolitical Capital withAl Hunt,^[4] thePBS roundtables (often broadcast other days than Sunday)This is America with Dennis Wholey,Washington Week, andInside Washington,^[5] and the originally PBS, later commercially syndicatedThe McLaughlin Group.^[6][7] FishbowlDC includes all the shows listed in Daniel W. Reilly's definition forPolitico's "Sunday Morning Tip Sheet," plusCN8'sRoll Call TV with Robert Traynham and other programs, including CNN'sReliable Sources,Fareed Zakaria GPS,Beyond the Politics withWilliam Bennett andPOTUS08'sPost Politics Program used to be listed in this category but are no longer considered so.C-SPAN'sNewsmakers,^[4]TV One'sWashington Watch,^[8]Hearst Television'sMatter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien,^[9]Gray Television'sFull Court Press withGreta Van Susteren, Fox News'Sunday Morning Futures,^[10] and (untilTim Russert's 2008 death)MSNBC'sTim Russert Show among several others.

C-SPAN Radio provides a commercial-free rebroadcast of all five shows in rapid succession, beginning at 12 noonEastern. Other radio stations rebroadcast some of the shows with commercials on Sunday afternoons.

Many local television stations (bothcommercial andnon-commercial) also produce their own programs that air in this time frame, generally focusing on local orstate politics rather than national issues, and may play off the title of the network shows, such asHartford, Connecticut'sWFSB-TV, a CBS affiliate which titles their weekly program dealing with state and local issuesFace the State, a title also seen onKTVN inReno/Carson City, Nevada andWHP-TV inHarrisburg, Pennsylvania, all of which servestate capital cities. Station groups may also syndicate programming to air on affiliates within a state, such asInside California Politics forNexstar-owned stations in California,Inside Texas Politics forTegna-owned stations in Texas, andWISN-TV'sUpfront inMilwaukee, which is syndicated to a network of Wisconsin's ABC affiliates by WISN ownerHearst Television.^[11][12] The member stations of PBS also often produce their state/local political affairs programming to air on Friday nights as a lead-out ofWashington Week.

The prominent guests appearing on these programs includeU.S. Senators,U.S. Representatives,state governors, candidates forPresident andVice president,cabinet secretaries,White House officials, and directors offederal agencies.U.S. military leaders,ambassadors, and religious leaders as well as prominentjournalists andcommentators. Members of prominentthink tanks such asBrookings,Center for American Progress,AEI,Cato,Hoover, andHeritage also are often invited to appear on the Sunday morning talk shows.^[13][14][15]

Various studies have criticized the shows for inviting predominantly white male guests. A study of the three shows on ABC, CBS and NBC from 1997 to 2005 found that the balance between Republicans and Democrats was fairly equal (52% Republicans), 61% of the journalists on the shows were conservative during the Clinton administration and that rose to 69% when George W. Bush's was president.^[16] In 2010, a study found that a relatively small number of senior senators, all of whom were white males, accounted for the majority of all Congressional guests on the five most popular shows.^[17] In 2021, the Women's Media Center published a study that showed overall 70% of the guests were male.^[15]

Currently, only two Sunday morning political programs exist in Australia -Insiders on theABC andSunday Agenda onSky News Australia. Former shows includeNetwork Ten'sMeet the Press (1992-2013),Nine Network'sSunday (1981–2008),The Bolt Report (2011-2015) andSpeers on Sunday onSky News Australia (2018-2019).^[18]The Bolt Report became a nightly primetime show in 2016.^[19][20] The three free-to-air commercial broadcasters air general morning news programsWeekend Sunrise (Seven),Weekend Today (Nine) andStudio 10 (Ten) which include some political coverage.

Similar programming to Sunday morning talk shows are aired on other days in Canada, including:

• CBC Radio One airs a Saturday morning political talk show,The House, currently hosted by Catherine Cullen.
• CBC News Network airs the weekday daily political talk showPower & Politics, currently hosted byDavid Cochrane.
• CTV News Channel airs the weekday daily political talk showPower Play, currently hosted byVassy Kapelos.

Currently, only two Sunday morning political programs exist in New Zealand -Q+A andMarae onTVNZ 1. Former shows includeThree'sNewshub Nation and TVNZ'sAgenda.

Similar practice occurs in theUK, in the form of shows such asThe Andrew Marr Show on theBBC andSunday Live with Adam Boulton onSky News. However, these shows have a somewhat-broader range, often interviewing figures from the arts, popular entertainment, and sports in addition to political leaders, similar in format toCBS News Sunday Morning in the United States. The first such Sunday show in Britain wasWeekend World, which was produced byLondon Weekend Television for theITV network from 1972 to 1988.

There are several political Sunday morning talk shows in Japan, most are often broadcast live from studios in Tokyo (Nichiyō Tōron: Kioichō, Shin Hōdō 2001: Daiba, Sunday Frontline: Roppongi), Jiji Hōdan is usually prerecorded on Friday evening.

Nichiyō Tōron by public broadcaster NHK often features one politician from every party represented in the National Diet, in many cases the parties' Diet Affairs Council Chairmen. The latter was generally the case withKokkai Tōronkai ("Diet forum"), one of several alternating NHK talk shows about political and economic issues sharing the same Sunday morning programming slot before they were replaced byNichiyō Tōron in 1994. It had initially been a NHK radio talk show and was simultaneously broadcast on television starting in the 1950s.

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